Lectures and Miscellanies

The principle of Democracy, which legitimates this result, is enthroned in our polity, and what is more, vivifies the newest affections and thoughts of all people. It is not a conventionality of man. It is an actual tendency of the Divine Providence, 1* 10 DEMOCRACY AND ITS ISSUES. felt all along the progress of human history, and marching now in open day to a complete and tri- umphant evolution. Happy are they, therefore, who no longer think of resisting or impeding it. But, above all, happy are they who betimes joyfully accept it with all the merely political changes it in- duces, believing that the paternal Wisdom, whose instrument it is, designs only good and no evil from it, and that in lieu of every edifice removed. He will build up another so glorious that the former will never again come into mind.